I totally understand not wanting to boot from writeable media in your situation. The reason that I didn't go that route is because I'm a bit concerned that there is some malware on the computer hard drive and I don't want that to be able to write to the USB drive.Īs others have pointed out, you might also have a bad DVD disk or a "bad burn" on that disk. Maybe that's somehow less intensive then booting to a Linux CD since Linux boots into a live session? It's strange the the DVD drive does work sometimes (I installed Windows from a DVD to the computer). Have you tried making a bootable USB stick and booting from that? It's usually quicker to boot that way, and it will eliminate an old mechanical DVD drive from the equation. That looks more like an actual hardware problem with the DVD drive. Here is some of the first output that system-rescue-CD was showing I have definitely used this system rescue CD several times before (this exact copy) on other computers. But, in the end, it wasn't able to fully boot, but provides a lot of feedback (for why?). I got to the screen where I choose how to "use" the CD (there are various choices, like GUI and command line). I was also able to get the computer to "start" the boot process using a CD for a different distro of Linux. I don't want Windows I was just doing that as a test. I was able to boot to a Windows 7 DVD, and Windows was able to successfully install to the hard drive. I even tried disabling the hard drive as a boot "option." Yes, I have secure boot disabled. I have the boot order set so that it should boot to the DVD. The computer refuses to boot to the Linux Mint 19.2 Xfce and Linux Mint 19.3 Xfce live DVDs. I am trying to install Linux on a Dell Optiplex 7010.
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